Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Contemplation

Quotes about: Contemplation

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  That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Intense

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.78, Library of America

• It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ideas, Meditation, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.29, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Agony, Feelings, Crowds

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.336, Bottletree Books LLC

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